Patents by Inventor YIFU TANG

YIFU TANG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210307029
    Abstract: It is possible to further suppress emergence of a half duplex (HD) problem in inter-device communication such as V2X communication. A communication device includes: a communication unit (220) that performs wireless communication; an acquisition unit (243) that acquires first information from a first communication device via the wireless communication, the first information being information regarding a transmission condition of data using a communication mode of switching transmission and reception in a time division manner to perform the inter-device communication; and a control unit (241) that controls an operation related to reception of data transmitted from the first communication device according to the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Hiroki MATSUDA, Yifu TANG
  • Publication number: 20210195558
    Abstract: A radio communication device is provided that includes a communication unit which performs inter-device communication according to carrier aggregation; and a processing unit which selects the transmission resources to be used in the inter-device communication according to carrier aggregation. The processing unit selects, as the transmission resources, carriers that are less affected by the interference based on the information related to inter-carrier interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yifu TANG, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210175964
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a mechanism which is capable of improving wireless link quality regarding transmission from a terminal device on the ground to a non-ground station device. [Solution] A terminal device including a control unit configured to acquire information regarding a type of a base station device and control a transmission timing of a signal to the base station device on the basis of the information regarding the type of the base station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, KAZUYUKI SHIMEZAWA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIROKI MATSUDA, RYOTA KIMURA, YIFU TANG
  • Patent number: 11030904
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a vehicle capable of predicting occurrence of a car traffic accident by detecting information regarding the other vehicle traveling around the vehicle and the other person who is a driver. An information processing apparatus according to a first aspect of the present disclosure includes a sensing unit that senses surrounding environment, a reception unit that receives information to prevent an accident regarding a predetermined area according to a current position, and a control unit that changes a parameter with which the sensing unit senses the surrounding environment on the basis of the information to prevent an accident received from the reception unit and a performance of the sensing unit. The present disclosure is capable of being applied to, for example, a car navigation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Hiroaki Takano, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yuichi Morioka
  • Publication number: 20210152272
    Abstract: [Object] Provided is a mechanism for enhancing resistance against an interference that possibly occur due to non-orthogonality of a resource in a communication system holding communication with a mixture of a plurality of communication parameter sets. [Solving Means] A transmitting apparatus holding communication using a plurality of communication parameter sets in a unit resource, and including a processing section that transmits a data signal and a reference signal generated using the parameter sets different between the data signal and the reference signal to a receiving apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: RYOTA KIMURA, HIROKI MATSUDA, NAOKI KUSASHIMA, YIFU TANG, YUKITOSHI SANADA
  • Publication number: 20210105066
    Abstract: [Subject] To realize FeD2D communication with higher quality. [Solving Means] A communication apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from another apparatus, information regarding a state of communication through a resource pool allocated to wireless links between at least part of a plurality of relay communication apparatuses, which are movable, and a remote communication apparatus; and a control unit that individually controls allocation of the resource pool to each of the wireless links between each of the plurality of relay communication apparatuses and the remote communication apparatus associated with the relay communication apparatus on the basis of the acquired information. [Selected Drawing] FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Yifu TANG
  • Publication number: 20210045051
    Abstract: [Problem] A communication device is provided that further improves the quality between radio links, in a communication system in which a base station apparatus communicates with a communication device. [Solution] A communication device is provided that includes a reception unit that receives system information including a set of identities indicating virtual cells, and a setting unit that selects a virtual cell identity to be applied, from the set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Yifu TANG
  • Publication number: 20210029674
    Abstract: [Problem] To enable allocation of resources in a more flexible manner in the inter-device communication including the V2X communication. [Solution] A communication device includes a communication unit that performs wireless communication; an obtaining unit that obtains, from another communication device, information about a first-type range of some of the resources which have been reserved by the other communication device for use in the inter-device communication; and a control unit that, based on the obtained information about the first-type range, controls a second-type range from which the resources are to be selected for use in the inter-device communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Yifu TANG
  • Publication number: 20210021333
    Abstract: To provide a communication device capable of further improving the quality between wireless links in a communication system in which a base station device and a communication device communicate with each other. Provided is a communication device configured to be capable of floating in the air, the communication device including a control unit that receives information regarding interference with a first communication device from a second communication device, the first communication device being not a communication partner, the second communication device being the communication partner, and controls transmission on the basis of the information regarding the interference and of an altitude of the communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • Publication number: 20210022054
    Abstract: A wireless communication device is provided which allows proper management of location information for a terminal moving in the air to reduce the power consumption of the terminal and to prevent the terminal from affecting communication. A wireless communication device is provided which includes a determination unit that determines whether the device is a device moving on the ground or a device moving in the air, a neighboring cell determination unit that determines whether or not identification information of a paging area acquired through common information transmitted from a base station is the same as identification information of a paging area for which an update was performed last time when the determination unit determines that the device is moving in the air, and a control unit that determines presence or absence of need for a paging area update on the basis of a condition for initiating a paging area update when the determination unit determines that the device is moving in the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • Publication number: 20200383110
    Abstract: [Problem] A mechanism is provided that enables a plurality of communication devices to use radio resources more efficiently. [Solution] A terminal device including: a control unit configured to transmit first resource information, which indicates a radio resource available to another communication device among radio resources of which access rights are acquired by performing carrier sense, on an uplink or a sidelink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIROKI MATSUDA, YIFU TANG
  • Patent number: 10856335
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism that enables resources to be efficiently utilized in V2X communication. [Solution] A base station including: a communication unit configured to perform radio communication; and a processing unit configured to allocate resources in semi-persistent scheduling for inter-terminal communication performed between a plurality of terminal devices and perform control such that control information regarding the allocation of the resources is transmitted to the terminal devices via the radio communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Publication number: 20200374892
    Abstract: To provide a mechanism in which a plurality of base station devices operated by different operators, respectively, can share a radio resource while cooperating with each other. A base station device includes: a control unit that transmits, to another base station device operated by an operator different from an operator operating the base station device, first configuration information of a first guaranteed resource that is preferentially usable by the base station device among radio resources that are sharable between the operator operating the base station device and the operator operating the other base station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIROKI MATSUDA, YIFU TANG
  • Publication number: 20200344743
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication device that enables sensing of efficient resources in inter-device communication such as V2X communication. [Solution] Provided is the communication device including a control unit configured to allocate a resource area in which a resource is selectable by a terminal device that executes inter-device communication, and to provide information regarding a range of sensing of the resource area to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Yifu TANG
  • Patent number: 10798738
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a device capable of performing efficient resource sensing in V2X communication. [Solution] Provided is a device including a processing unit configured to perform sensing using one of first sensing of sensing resources for a predetermined period and selecting communication resources on a basis of a result of the sensing and second sensing of selecting communication resources on a basis of a result of decoding control information transmitted by another user with reference to a mapping table at the time of the first sensing and the second sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano, Atsushi Yoshizawa, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Publication number: 20200304153
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire an information block generated from transmission data for a user and subjected to error correction coding; and an interleaving unit configured to interleave a bit sequence of the information block using an interleaver unique to the user. The interleaving unit interleaves the bit sequence by interleaving each of two or more partial sequences obtained from the bit sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: RYOTA KIMURA, YIFU TANG
  • Patent number: 10771093
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire an information block generated from transmission data for a user and subjected to error correction coding and an interleaving unit configured to interleave a bit sequence of the information block using an interleaver unique to the user. The interleaving unit interleaves the bit sequence by interleaving each of two or more partial sequences obtained from the bit sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 10757709
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication device that enables sensing of efficient resources in inter-device communication such as V2X communication. [Solution] Provided is the communication device including a control unit configured to allocate a resource area in which a resource is selectable by a terminal device that executes inter-device communication, and to provide information regarding a range of sensing of the resource area to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • Publication number: 20200245311
    Abstract: To achieve higher-quality FeD2D communication. [Solution] A communication apparatus including a communication unit that performs a wireless communication, and a control unit that performs a control to cause control information regarding allocation of a resource for a communication with a first apparatus via a first wireless link to be notified to a second apparatus via a second wireless link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, YIFU TANG
  • Publication number: 20200068580
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism for suppressing consumed power of a remote communication apparatus related to measurement. A remote communication apparatus is capable of communicating with a base station via mediation of communication by a relay communication apparatus configured to be movable, and includes a control unit that selects a link to measure on the basis of association information that correlates a first relay communication apparatus with the remote communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: YIFU TANG, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA